Seam for sewed articles.



No. 875,594. PATBNTED DEC. 31, 1907.

L. ONDERDONK. SBAM FOR SEWED ARTICLES.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 3.1904.

effectually cover and "To all whom it concern:

UNITED STATES PATENT onnrcn.

LANSING DNDERDONK, on NEW YORK COMPANY, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

,snm non SEWED ARTICLES.

- Specification ofLetters Patent. Application filed June- 3| 1904. Serial No- 211,060.

Patented. Dec. 31,1907.

Be it known that I, LANSING ONDEnDoN-n, acltlzen of the United, States, residing at New York, in the county of New York, State of New York, haveinvented certainnew and useful Improvements in Seams for Sewed Articles, ofwhich the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to [the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.-

' My invention relatesto an improvement in seams for'sewed'articles,and particularly to a seam or arrangement of threads andvfabric adapted for finishing the edges of fabrics, or

for coveringand 'uniting'the raw edges of two pieces of fabric'which' may-be afterward I opened out fiat.-. v The idea is to provide a seam for knitted fabrics which shall not only be ornamental but which shall be We strong, elastic and bind down the raw edges, and hold in the loose cut thread of the material, and at the same time when spread 'out flat no'objectionabl'e ridge is formed.

The invention consists in the arrangement of threads and fabric hereinafter described and referred to in the ap ended claims;-

. While Ihave herein s own the seam as -made of two pieces, of fabric, having their edgessuperposed and united, and bound by" the arrangement of threads illustrated, it will be understood that only, one fabric may be .used instead of two.

In' the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention, Figure 1 is a sectional perspective .view of a seam embodying my inventlon; Fig. 2'is a top plan view; and Fi 3 is abottom plan view of thesame.

In these drawings, A, A, represent two pieces of fabric whose edges are superposed.

assing. down throu hthe fabric are two loops of needle -threa a, (1/,thes'e loops passing'through the fabrics at points oblique to N, Y., ASSIGN'OR To UNION SPECIAL SEWING MACHINE J each other, respecting the central line of the seam, and the two loo s of needle thread are drawnto one side to t e edge of the fabrics where a third-thread b is passed through both loops of needlethread, and a loop of'the thread I) is laid upon .the topof the fabric, and is engaged by the nextfisucceeding loop a,

' a, of the needle thread; When the threads are placed under tension to set the stitch, the

'- row of loops passed through the fabric in a "line parallel to the first named row of loops, and intermediate the same and the edge of the fabric, the individual loops of said threads being nestedand drawn to a point near the edge of the fabric and lying in a'line oblique to the edge of the fabrie, and a lockingthread passing through-the loops of. saith-rows beneath the fabric,- and'extending over the edge onto the upper surface of the fabric, and surrounding the loops in; the said threads and drawing'said threads together on the-upper face of the fabric, said locking thread loops lying at an angle tothe lines of the individual loops.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature,

in presence oftwo witnesses. I LANSING ONDERDONK.

Witnesses:

W. 'L. SWIFT, E. T. .ALLAN. 

